With a goal to redefine your understanding of the future of work, "The Lever with Drew Fortin" is coming to YouTube and your favorite podcast streaming app starting on August 7, 2023. Over the first half of 2023, Connor Lewis, Executive Producer and founder of Studio Lewis, and I, Drew Fortin, Founder & CEO of Lever Talent, Inc., set out to find experts to dive deep, not just into the technology but its implications on our world of work, investment, academia, economics, and businesses.
There is a lot of fear-mongering out there on the rise of AI and robots are coming to take jobs. It's important to remember that every major platform shift before AI has led to more prosperity and further innovation. The Lever is designed to challenge current thinking and highlight the transformative effects of AI, robotics, and web3 on the traditional employee-employer relationship. It emphasizes the good things these advancements mean for workers.
Season one of “The Lever with Drew Fortin” delivers episodes that aim to leave you feeling informed and inspired about the future. Founded on my major trends shaping the future of work, the show is artfully curated into six episodes to take you on the journey from fundamental shifts that technology will have on the future of work to how it's leading to the rise of free agency and workers having more control over their career than ever before.
We've been noodling on the idea for a while. I approached Connor back in 2019, but the timing wasn't right. Then, with the heat of the recessionary pressures on the tech sector firing up last summer and the release of Chat-GPT, we felt there was no better time to get our point of view out there. This show aims to break the mold of traditional interview podcast formats. Since its inception, our idea was always to draft episode summaries and integrate contributions from multiple guests into each episode - giving you a quick hit of engaging and educational content.
Each of the six episodes in Season 1 of The Lever is about 10-20 minutes long and is a carefully crafted composition of news, research, and expert commentary. With pre-drafted episode summaries in hand, we set out to interview leaders, innovators, and trailblazers across work tech, investing, academia, economics, and business. We then carefully analyze 25 hours of footage and transcripts from 23 interviews and dozens of news and research articles to finalize the show scripts for Season 1.
Here are the experts who appear at least once in Season 1 of the show in alphabetical order by last name. You can learn more about each guest and see which episodes they appear in at Levershow.com:
We want to offer our audience more than just a video series and podcast. In order to provide content that truly connects with our viewers, we're expanding The Lever experience beyond the show. We’ll release uncut interviews in video form, contributor exposes, and compilations of the expert insights shared by our guests. These glimpses behind the scenes will give you unfiltered, raw insights into the minds of our contributors. This content is a valuable resource for anyone seeking to understand the future of work in the age of AI and robotics.
With “The Lever with Drew Fortin,” we're inviting you to be a part of this exploration of the future. We're not just sharing insights; our goal is that The Lever starts conversations, sparks ideas, and inspires change. There will be few moments like this in our lifetime. Unprecedented opportunity awaits, but not without daunting challenges.
So, mark your calendars for the summer of 2023 and join us on this fascinating journey into the future of work in the age of AI and robotics. And helps us address the central question: How can we harness these technological advancements for the betterment of humanity?
Enjoy the show! Oh, and we are already looking ahead to Season 2. Send me ideas of who you think should be guest contributors.